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- coalescence
- smaller pieces joining together to form a single larger rain drop
- freezing nucleus
- makes ice cyrstals
- condensation nucleus
- makes rain drops
- adiabatic cooling
- cause condintion and clouds to form when a humid air mass is lifted higher into the atmosphere
- evaporation
- of the state that causes cooling to the surroundings
- convergence
- collision of 2 or more single masses or winds at a single location
- acid precipitation
- caused by air pollutants
- dew piont
- temp at which the relitive humitiy is = to 100%
- supercooled water
- water below freezing state
- orographic
- assocrain shadow effect thet causes one side of a mountain to get more rain then the other